On a serious note, from your thread, it has upset a few people but sounds like he needed a change of scenery. He is a straight replacement for Tonks (Scots Qual) that has upset a few people except he also needed a change of scenery. Bit of a merry go round.

What team should Edinburgh expect? I was thinking of going to this game as I am in Cardiff (visiting relatives for Easter) but will wait for line ups. I don't really want to pay to be disappointed by Te Rure at 10.

Luckless Pedestrian wrote:It'll be nice if we don't get four players yellow-carded this time...

Well your tight five will need to show up this time. The Edinburgh scrum is formidable and our biggest weapon, and at Murrayfield you guys really struggled in that department and lost the ref accordingly.

Edinburgh travel to Wales today, as league action resumes in the Guinness PRO12, ready to take on Dragons at Rodney Parade on Sunday 27 March (kick-off 2.30pm) in a match crucial to aims of a top six finish.

There are five changes to the starting XV from the capital club’s last league encounter, at home against table-toppers Connacht on 4 March.

Teenage talent Blair Kinghorn retains his place at fullback while Damien Hoyland and Tom Brown continue to occupy the wing berths. Michael Allen returns from injury at outside centre and Sam Beard takes the 12 jersey, with Matt Scott sidelined following injury.

The half-back pairing of Phil Burleigh at stand-off and Sam Hidalgo-Clyne at scrum half is retained, with the latter running out for his 50th cap at Rodney Parade.

An all-new front row sees the return of Alasdair Dickinson, Ross Ford and WP Nel from RBS 6 Nations duty, hooker Ford captaining the side in place of Mike Coman who is recovering from a calf injury.

Locks Anton Bresler and Ben Toolis remain in the second row with Jamie Ritchie again on the blindside, Hamish Watson at openside and Cornell Du Preez in the no 8 shirt.

Stuart McInally and new international cap Rory Sutherland return on the bench, which also includes the club’s latest re-signing Sean Kennedy.

Speaking about his 50th appearance for the club, Hidalgo-Clyne said: “It’s a great milestone for me but the biggest thing this weekend is not about me, it’s about the team and the position we’re in.

“We’re obviously look at a top six finish and will be going all out to get the result in Newport.”

Looking back over his preceding 49 caps, Hidalgo-Clyne highlighted the visit of Dragons to BT Murrayfield a year ago, in Edinburgh’s European Cup semi-final win, as an outstanding moment.

“It’ll be good play against Dragons again this week and hopefully repeat that performance.”

The scrum half, who recently committed his future to the club for another two years, added: “We’re growing as a club, we’ve got a good base, increasing depth and will be looking to attract even more supporters.

“We’ll be back at BT Murrayfield next Friday, looking to really put in a performance against Zebre and it would be great to get as much support as possible behind us.”

Edinburgh, who currently lie in seventh place in the PRO12 table, are two places and four points above their Welsh combatants. The club’s only defeat in the last seven fixtures with Dragons in all tournaments came in round 21 at Rodney Parade last season, just weeks after they had beaten the Welsh outfit at BT Murrayfield in the semi-final of the European Challenge Cup.

I really don't get Solomons. His stuff about not having a choice regarding the front row is madness. He's also bizarrely totally ignored berghan in favour of andress, who has been poor in comparison, on the bench.

In the game where Bradbury got a run out a week or so ago he was interviewed after the game and let slip his true feelings about lack of opportunities then lamely reeled them back again by saying that there are opportunities.

Solomons doesn't really seem to trust his squad as a whole, or maybe more accurately he has favourites and sticks with them regardless if they are the right choice or not.

EWT Spoons wrote:I really don't get Solomons. His stuff about not having a choice regarding the front row is madness. He's also bizarrely totally ignored berghan in favour of andress, who has been poor in comparison, on the bench.

In the game where Bradbury got a run out a week or so ago he was interviewed after the game and let slip his true feelings about lack of opportunities then lamely reeled them back again by saying that there are opportunities.

Solomons doesn't really seem to trust his squad as a whole, or maybe more accurately he has favourites and sticks with them regardless if they are the right choice or not.

EWT Spoons wrote:I really don't get Solomons. His stuff about not having a choice regarding the front row is madness. He's also bizarrely totally ignored berghan in favour of andress, who has been poor in comparison, on the bench.

In the game where Bradbury got a run out a week or so ago he was interviewed after the game and let slip his true feelings about lack of opportunities then lamely reeled them back again by saying that there are opportunities.

Solomons doesn't really seem to trust his squad as a whole, or maybe more accurately he has favourites and sticks with them regardless if they are the right choice or not.

Imagine what it does to the confidence of the backup players?

I very much hope Sutherland and McInally are given at least 20 minutes - they make a real impact off the bench.

Lyn the Lip wrote:"Any great side has players who just have a knack of scoring tries; Sarel Pretorius can do it, Dorian Jones can do it, Tyler Morgan can do it, Hallam Amos and Ashton Hewitt can certainly do it, Taulupe Faletau can do it.

"Straight away without breathing I've mentioned six players who tend to score tries and we want to go out and score points against Edinburgh.

"Our defence record is pretty good but it's about scoring for us. We appreciate how difficult a side Edinburgh can be but that's the challenge we are faced with and we are confident we can take them."